The Big Take
Justice Is Beside the Point in America’s Immigration Courts
The system for deciding asylum cases is failing, and not only because it’s overwhelmed. Something drastic will have to be done to fix a process that’s flawed at its very core.
Yerandy Valdes was turned away once by the US and sent back to Cuba, where he was jailed. He now lives in Missouri, awaiting a second immigration hearing.
Photographer: Sebastián Hidalgo/Bloomberg
This is the first story in the series Courting Injustice, which reveals how US immigration courts deny many deserving asylum seekers due process.